Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnish planes dropped propaganda pamphlets on Leningrad, in which Russian prisoners' tales of woe in the Soviet army were retold for the folks at home...
Early in World War II's noisy propaganda campaign, reporters at CBS's shortwave listening post in Manhattan became fairly familiar with an impersonal, unaccented voice reading Nazi bulletins in English. One night in October, the voice identified itself as Fred Kaltenbach, from Iowa. Fred had a "letter" he wanted to read, to an old pal back home named Harry. Soon Fred got into the tall corn. One night he signed off with: "Well, Harry old man . . . give my regards to the folks back home in Ottumwa and Waterloo." At this CBS's ears pricked-a clue...
...dope on Fred. He was Butcher John Kaltenbach's boy, from Waterloo, the one who went to Berlin in 1936 to get his Ph.D., married a German girl named Dorothea Peters from the staff of Hermann Goring's aviation magazine, and signed up with the Nazi propaganda staff...
...niggardly terms, and Mickey very probably meant it when he said, "WHEREAS: Communism is the world's greatest curse today; and WHEREAS . . . Communism is corrupting the morals of our young people; and WHEREAS We all know that the Communists are trying hard to spread their evil and false propaganda through our schools and through our school text books (see Liberty Magazine December 30, 1939)." Probably he meant it. But even if all this is true, there are better ways of telling it to the people. It wasn't necessary to toss a wrench into the machinery of law-giving...
...BRITAIN IS AT WAR - Harold Nicolson-Penguin (25?). Semi-propaganda for the literate: the British argument put with skill and fervor by a ringside spectator of British foreign policy since Versailles. The next Peace Conference will have a fighting chance of fairness, Nicolson thinks, only if a Final Treaty is negotiated between victor and vanquished at their leisure and at least a year after the Preliminary Treaty, or Diktat, is imposed. For implementing a future society of nations, he proposes (less convincingly) that all civil and military aircraft be operated by the "League...